TY  - BOOK
AU  - Paprota,Malgorzata
TI  - Constructing the welfare state in the British press: boundaries and metaphors in political discourse 
T2  - Bloomsbury advances in critical discourse studies
SN  - 9781350125346
AV  - JC479 .P37 2021
U1  - 070.4/49361650941090512 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - London, UK, New York, NY
PB  - Bloomsbury Academic
KW  - Welfare state
KW  - Press coverage
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Discourse analysis
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Semiotics
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - �Etat providence
KW  - Couverture de presse
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "Analysing political discourse in the British press during a time of crisis and austerity, this book examines how the concept of the welfare state has been constructed between 2008 and 2015. A corpus from four British newspapers from across the political spectrum is brought together to investigate the political debate on its evaluation and the ambiguity about its exact definition. A discourse-historical approach is used to establish what the welfare state is, and conceptual metaphor theory is then used to explore its figurative conceptualisations"--
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ER  -